"Life is lived forward, but understood backward. It is not until we are down the road and we stand on the mountain looking back through the valley that we can appreciate the terrain God has allowed us to scale.” Jill Savage

Friday, November 23, 2012

Fun Friday with a little help from my friends.

Stuff You Just Have to Know- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. - A snail can sleep for three years. - A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. - Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. - Almonds are members of the peach family. - An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. - "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". - The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. - There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. - There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous and hazardous. - Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself. - There are more chickens than people in the world. - Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road. - Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. - Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. - The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz." And just in case you have a pressing need to call Antartica: - The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672 Thank you Calamity Jane

Turkey works like Prozac! lol

What the turkeys learned for next year.

He forgot it wasn't Halloween???

Perspectives are funny things.

Hope you had a great one . . .

CHATTY AFTER THE THANKSGIVING MEAL AND BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPING!

Hope y'all had a great Thanksgiving with your family, a great meal, and have found a lot of things to be thankful for.

Hello Dear Sandie,As you know Thanksgiving is only in America.. But I am glad that you had a wonderful thanksgiving.This is an hilarious post.. so funny.Thank you to you also for being my blogging friend.val xx

I love the Prozac cartoon....I hope no one had a day where they felt like they needed that. I am thankful today that yesterday was a wonderful day with family and friends and that today it is all cleaned up.

hope you are having a great time. i am just like the MOTHER SEES... cluck cluck the sky is falling.I know some people whose brain is smaller than their eyeball. so does this mean i need to put all that paper work that is held together by rubber bands in the freezer? if so I am off to black Friday for a very large one

I loved the 'how the Mother sees it' cartoons! So TRUE! Hope you had a wonderful time and will be home safely soon. I'm going to decorate the house over the weekend...well that's the plan anyway! hugs, Linda

Hi Sandie. What a lot of interesting things for us to digest there! Loved the turkey carved as if it was Halloween. I think I am at one with the ostrich, as I'm sure MY eye is bigger than my brain! LOL!! Hugs.

As usual, you have given me a good laugh...... and I needed one today. Thanksgiving with my family here was wonderful, but today was back to my new life....... I KNOW it will get better, one day at a time.Thank you my sweet blogging friend!!

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Love the dog photo at the end. :) My niece and her husband brought their labrador retriever Hank with them to the farm and he bounded out of the car, ready to play with his BFF Moby (sister and BIL's much older big dog.) Moby looked worn out like that on Thanksgiving night. :)

Hi Sandie, dear friend,Fridays are my favourite days too.It's lovely to know that the weekend is ahead for having fun.You are sharing lots of interesting things this day.I love your wonderful blog, Sandie.I hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving with your dear family and beloved ones!I really miss your comments, sweetheart, when I don't see you visiting me.I do not know why...I send all my loving on your way.God may bless you all!Have a blessed Sunday and week ahead, my friend!Christmas and the New Year is round the corner. Many people have already begun to prepare themselves for big celebrations for the Holidays.If it is God's will, I'll be going for my dear family reunion in the Spring of 2013. I can't wait to see my folks again. Praise the Lord for His many blessings!Warm Hugs,Poet Starry.

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